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The chipmaker’s sprawling partnerships are driving extraordinary growth but also bank its future on the AI boom paying off quicklyNvidia is, in crucial ways, nothing like Enron – the Houston energy giant that imploded through multibillion-dollar accounting fraud in 2001. Nor is it similar to compani…
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AI feels like magic — largely because most of us don't understand how it really works.Why it matters: This story will radically break down the process so this technology — which is becoming as commonplace as the Internet — feels more real and less magical."My advice for you is to start from somethin…
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From companionship to psychotherapy, technology could meet unmet needs – but it needs to be handled responsiblyThere is much anxiety these days about the dangers of human-AI relationships. Reports of suicide and self-harm attributable to interactions with chatbots have understandably made headlines.…
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The Scots singer thought Kim Wilde was cool and got talked into buying a Cocteau Twins record but which song gives her a slap in the face?The first song I fell in love with
I remember seeing Kim Wilde do Kids in America on Top of the Pops, and thinking she looked like Marilyn Monroe wearing a leat…
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⚽ Updates from the 2pm Premier League kick-off⚽ Live scores | Table | Follow us on BlueskyThis piece from the archive starts with one of the most astonishing saves in football history. Not sure I can think of another save so improbable that two commentators have called ‘goal’.Johan Cruyff on the Sun…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism ahead of Sunday’s meeting with President Trump, underscoring the critical moment before the new year to make progress on peace talks. He said the prospects for peace rest on the willingness of Ukraine’s allies to increase pressure on Russia. …
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French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot was well known for her status as a sex symbol in the 1960s. But in later decades, Bardot became a militant animal rights activist and then veered to the far right, making disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ+ community, Muslims and immigrants that led to five conv…
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Liu De-wen operates at a sensitive space in Taiwan’s history, as Beijing demands reunification with the islandIn the leafy back blocks of a military cemetery in northern Taiwan, Liu De-wen strides through a room holding rows and rows of shelves. He stops and stoops to the lowest row, opening a small…
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Volunteers and neighbours are restoring the century-old homes as an act of defiance against Russia’s assaultLesia Danylenko proudly showed off her new front door. Volunteers had nicknamed its elegant transom window the “croissant”, a nod to its curved shape. “I think it’s more of a peacock,” she sai…
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Bardot titillated the world for five decades, but the controversy and voyeurism surrounding her shouldn’t overshadow an intriguing film career• Bridgette Bardot dies aged 91Bardot … there was a time when it couldn’t be pronounced without a knowing pout on the second syllable. French headline-writers…
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A major new review has put hundreds of alternative autism treatments under the microscope—and most didn’t hold up. Scientists analyzed decades of research and found little reliable evidence that popular approaches like probiotics, acupuncture, or music therapy truly work. Alarmingly, safety was ofte…
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Topjaw’s Jesse Burgess is known for asking chefs and celebrities their favourite places to eat and drink. Time to turn the tables …As the wildly popular social media platform celebrates its 10th year, we ask the Topjaw frontman what he loves – and hates – about eating out during the festive season. …
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New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday rejected Elon Musk’s argument that his appointment to head up the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is inexperienced. “Experience does matter, which is why I appointed the person who spent more than 30 years at EMS. You know, the workforce that ad…
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A humble shelter operating out of a tent remains the last beacon of hope for the injured and hungry animal population in war-ravaged Gaza, even as its workers and volunteers face their own impossible conditions.“You cannot look at a creature that trusts you and eat in front of it without sharing,” S…
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In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery: how delicate particles like deuterons and their antimatter twins can exist at all. Instead of forming in the initial chaos, these fragile nuclei a…
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Dozens of staff bring the annual light show to life – but a changing climate means displays now need to be designed differentlyWhere might one find three giant jellyfish, a Dalek, and a flying bear? In a fever dream perhaps, but also here, in the Blackpool Illuminations storehouse.Inside this nondes…
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To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gearsOne of the worst bugbears to possess is one that is shared by hardly anyone else. It’s lonely being the only person who cares about something.…
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As young men face new rules forcing them to indicate their readiness to serve, the Bundeswehr drums up support at a trade showSitting in the cramped interior of a Panzerhaubitze 2000 armoured vehicle, Tom, 20, hangs on every word coming from Achim, an officer with the German military, as he breathle…
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The filmmakers behind Yash’s highly anticipated “Toxic – A Fairytale for Grown-Ups” have revealed the first look at Huma Qureshi as Elizabeth, unveiling a character that blends old-world glamour with unsettling gothic menace. The newly released image captures Qureshi against a cemetery backdrop, her…
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US President Donald Trump will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Florida on Sunday for talks on a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war with Russia.. This comes as Moscow's Foreign ​Minister Sergei Lavrov said that any ‍European ​troops deployed ⁠to Ukraine would becom…